Indoor-golf game.



No. 720.191. 'PAIENTED FEB. 10, 1903.

H. H. TAYLOR. INDOOR GOLF GAME.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17. 1902.

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HENRY H. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

INDOOR-GOLF GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,191, dated February10, 1903. Application filed November 17, 1902. Serial No. 131 ,680. (Nomodel.)

and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exactdescription of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to .certain improvements in indoor-golf games, andhas for its object to improve upon the construction shown and describedin Letters Patent No.

713,253, issued to me November 11, 1902 and it consists in certaindetails of construction hereinafter fully set forth and thenspecifically designated by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure'l is a plan view of my improvedgame; Fig. 2, a section at the line a: w of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a detailelevation of one form of ball, and Fig. 4 is a detail elevation ofanother form of bail.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in the several figuresof the drawings.

In the Letters Patent above referred to I showed and described a ballcovered with a fuzzy substance, and I also showed and described thesurface of the game-board likewise covered with a fuzzy substance; but Ihave ascertained that I can use either a perfectly-smooth ball or a ballhaving a serrated surface, provided that a very pronounced fuzzysubstance is used upoifthe boarmand, moreov'eTfit'istrue that either asmooth ball or a serrated ball is more satisfactory, particularly whenhazards are placed upon the board.

A is the foundation-board, provided with the sides B. Within thisbox-like receptacle I place any suitable material C, which may be wood,paper-pulp, cement, or the like, the

upper surface of which substance is irregular or rolling, so as torepresent "the general layout of golf -links. The surface of thissubstance C is covered or coagzedallover with a proper fuzzy material1),?hich is preferably a pile fabricfs'iich as plush, or a verypronouncedfuzzy substance.

1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 represent the tees from which the ball is successivelydriven in playing the game, and 1 2 3 4 5 6? 8 9 are the holes withinwhich the ball is to be played, the lines dotted in the circle aroundeach hole representing the putting-greens.

10 represents hazards, which I preferably make from curled hair or otheranalogous substance and which are located upon the surface of the boardat proper places. These hazards represent difficulties or particularlyrough places and quite a little skill is required to avoid them.

A ball covered with a fuzzy substance would stick in these hazards, sothat the playing of the ball therefrom would be attended with more luckthan actual skill.

In my present improvement I use a ball whose surface is either perfectlysmooth, as shown at E in Fig. 4, or the surface of the ball may bescored, so as to present a rough appearance, as shown at E in Fig. 3.

I have ascertained that both the smooth and the serrated ball can beplayed with far more accuracy than would be obtained by the use of afuzzy ball, and, moreover, a ball that is not covered with a fuzzysubstance will not skitter, but will closely hug the surface of theboard, provided that the latter is covered with a pronounced fuzzysubstance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In an indoor-golf game, a playing-board having an irregularplaying-surface covered with a pronounced fuzzy substanceas a pilefabric, teesand holes located at proper places throughout said board,and hazards made from curled hair secured to the board and extendingabove the playing-surface thereof and located at points intermediate ofsaid tees and holes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

F. W. SMITH, J r., M. T. LONGDEN.

